expectantly

expectant | American Dictionary

expectant
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪkˈspek·tənt/
An expectant mother/father/parent is someone whose child has not yet been born.

Examples of expectant

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In this case the expectant void is merely an extension of the roadie cabaret.
Distilling melodic motion to the most expectant and abbreviated of half cadences, the motive makes a strong impression of incompleteness and immediate demand.
After their formation period, they would be inscribed in the first class of expectant officials.
Few studies have been done on the expectant management of patients with cholelithiasis diagnosed by planned investigation, and results are conflicting.
Information to expectant parents concerning the consequences of the examination-and the opportunity to refuse the exam-should be improved, particularly when fetal anatomy is studied.
The natural history of preterm ruptured membranes: what to expect of expectant management.
The ultrasound expert intermediary has maximized the power for intervention of an expectant father or of other societal forces.
What they have in common is that they are moving out from or away from a starting-point, creating expectant tensions.
Experience expectant and dependent processes carry enormous adaptive advantages for the infant.
In the expectant management group 11 had spontaneous onset of labour and delivery before 33 weeks.
Basic emotional-action systems may project feelings onto objects in the world, creating mood-congruent experience-expectant cognitions essential for empathetic responses.
Though it made for thrilling newspaper copy, an expectant public were horrified by the tragedy; sensational news was soon followed by bitter charges and debates.
For example ex-mental patients and expectant unmarried fathers are similar in that their failing is not readily visible; the blind, however, are easily seen.
The aim of expectant management is to delay delivery until fetal lung maturity is reached which in general is regarded as 37 weeks gestation.
If the expectant environmental input is not provided during the sensitive period window, then normal development does not occur.
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